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Re: import determinism

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Nov 7, 2010, 22:45 UTC
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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> The committer info in every commit will be the same as the author info,
>> so the repository conversion is completely deterministic.
>
> For cvsimport, it is not deterministic. Given cvs'
> ambiguous/buggy/inconsistent internal semantics around some
> operations, cvsps makes educated guesses about what happened.
>
> Later commits can affect those educated guesses.
The OP was assuming an unchanging repository.
Andreas.
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